WordPress 3.0.4 released on Deecember 29, 2010 as the latest WordPress released in 2010. This released is a patch for XSS vulnerabilities in in the KSES library. And this release is considered as critical security update by WordPress.What is KSES? KSES is an HTML/XHTML filter written in PHP. It removes all unwanted HTML elements and attributes, and it also does several checks on attribute values. kses can be used to avoid Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). KSES is an open source project available … Read more...
Ubuntu: Best Linux Desktop And Best Linux Multimedia Distribution
December 26, 2010 • 1 Comment
Ubuntu is one of the best Linux distributions. It got the best Linux desktop distribution and best Linux multimedia distribution review by Brian Proffitt as the Linux experts from Linux Foundation (linux.com).Ubuntu desktop, as the best Linux desktop distribution, is the result of Canonical team and Ubuntu community support for spending a lot of time and resources on to bring ease-of-use tools to this distribution, particularly in the area of installing Ubuntu and installing applications … Read more...
Turn Off Light Feature For Video Streaming Site
December 23, 2010 • 5 Comments
Most of the times when you watching a streaming video from Youtube or other else, you found that all the comment or related videos or ads are little bit distracting. So if you own a video streaming website, it’s better if you can give this turn off light feature, so your visitor can enjoy their time when watching a video from your site.To implement this turn off light feature, you need JQuery to modify CSS on the fly.For JQuery library i’m using Ajax from Google API:And for … Read more...
Facebook 1.5 For Android Released With Chat and Push Notification Features
December 22, 2010 • 1 Comment
Facebook For Android now upgrade to version 1.5. This new version have 2 very important features: first chat feature which also has a background mode, so you can receive messages while using other apps almost like Facebook for Blackberry and iPhone, and push notifications, which are only supported for devices running Android 2.2 or greater. As this release can be regarded as completely on par with the iPhone or Blackberry version.Facebook 1.5 changelog:Added Chat – now you can chat … Read more...
Get Last Tweet Without OAuth Using PHP
December 18, 2010 • 2 Comments
Get last tweet of your tweets or someone’s tweet with username doesn’t need OAuth. Twitter have their own API to get last tweet with username. You can access the API with http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/, which some arguments supplied. You can read more detail about this API function here.I have create a simple function to parse last tweet from a username:How to use it:The function will return array of tweets. That’s it, if you like to know more, you can … Read more...
Get Twitter Update With JQuery
December 18, 2010 • 1 Comment
From the previous article i write, Get Last Tweet Without OAuth Using PHP, and now i want to share with you how to get the twitter update with JQuery.Get Twitter update with JQuery is not much different, we are using the same API given by Twitter , process it and display the results. You can get the Twitter update from someone using their username using this Twitter API:Where username would be the twitter username, and format could be json, xml, atom and rss.Okay as usual, if we … Read more...
Enable Maintenance Mode With .htaccess
December 16, 2010 • 1 Comment
Sometimes when you are upgrading your blog or your website, it’s wise and highly recommended that your block all your visitor and redirect it to maintenance page. So your visitors know and come back later. You can redirect your visitors to maintenance page with redirect 307 (temporary redirect). This redirect 307 won’t harm your server and SEO in search engine. When Google bot saw this redirect code, it will come back later and index your page again.To redirect all your visitors except … Read more...
Learning JQuery For First Time
December 15, 2010 • Leave a Comment
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. It’s the definition from the author of JQuery. And JQuery also a cross browser javascript library, which means write once and run in every browser.There are a lot of other AJAX frameworks out there, such as Prototype, Mootools, Ext library, Google Webtoolkit … Read more...
Use And Tweak timthumb Script For WordPress Blog
December 15, 2010 • 2 Comments
Update: I don't use Timthumb script anymore because it has security vulnerability. So please use it with your own risk.TimThumb is a small open source library which is aimed to provide resized copies of given images. TimThumb is developed by Ben Gillbanks which is firstly create this script for the WordPress themes Mimbo Pro. It handles cropping, zooming and resizing web images in several formats such as jpg, png, and gif. It’s very useful and simple enough.Follow the guide below to … Read more...
